MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - A draft law to toughen control over electronic media, including in the Internet, as part of efforts against extremism has been withdrawn from Russia's lower house of parliament for further discussion. The Russian Vedomosti

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not playing a "double game" over Iran's controversial nuclear program, the former foreign minister said at an international nuclear conference on Tuesday. Some Western states have accused Russia of a policy of

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Real Madrid sacked trainer Bernd Schuster and replaced him with former Tottenham Hotspur manager Juande Ramos on Tuesday, 24 hours before a home Champions League match against Zenit St. Petersburg. The club announced the

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch Alexy II was laid to rest on Tuesday in Moscow after a grand funeral ceremony attended by top Orthodox figures, political leaders, and thousands of ordinary people. Alexy II, who died of heart

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Finance Ministry has denied a report that the country had agreed to write off most of Cambodia's debt, a Finance Ministry official said on Tuesday. China's Xinhua news agency earlier on Tuesday quoted

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - A Tajik national was decapitated near Moscow in what is believed to have been a race-hate murder, Russia media reported on Tuesday. Police are currently searching for those involved in the attack on the

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Unknown assailants attacked cash couriers on Tuesday near a bank in downtown Moscow, killing one of them and stealing around 20 million rubles ($715,000), a police source said. "Three unknown suspects attacked cash couriers